Reprinted from hartmannreport.com
We have the resources to deal with childhood injuries & deaths from the only product sold in America specifically designed to kill human beings - and it's now the leading cause of deaths in children
Nina Shapiro reports at Forbes this week in an article titled "The Leading Cause Of Death In Children And Youths Is Now Guns":
"Access to firearms by children, by unlicensed owners, and absence of safety measures when it comes to both intentional and unintentional gun-related injuries and deaths, are among the reasons that the incidence of this horrific, truly avoidable tragedy is on the rise."
The latest con from the GOP is that they're all about "the children."
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They're worried that trans people will show up in the "wrong" bathroom and scare or threaten "the children."
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They're hysterical that teaching American history will cause white children to "feel bad."
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They're locking up women and threatening them with life in prison because they had a miscarriage that Republicans suspect might have been a self-induced abortion.
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They're happily jumping on the 2022 GOP version of the Tsar's antisemitic blood libel, claiming their political opponents are "groomers" targeting children.
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They're enthusiastically embracing the Qanon slogan: "Save the children!"
Until you mention children killed by guns.
Then, Republicans retreat into a bizarre cone of silence or simply turn and run away from the conversation altogether. Or, worse, they continue grooming their own young people to become school shooters, as you can see below.
Twenty years ago, car accidents were the leading killer of children and youth; today it's guns.
At the turn of the 21st century, there were about 14 car-crash deaths among young people (aged 1-24) per 100,000 young Americans, and only a bit over 7 gun deaths per 100,000. This year, almost 11 out of 100,000 children died from guns while only 8 per 100K died from car crashes.
And most all of those child gun deaths, which don't happen in any other developed country in the world, are entirely preventable, if only Republicans would stop actively blocking progress.
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